Category: Commodore News
Retro Games Ltd, the company that manufactures the TheC64 (I never know if I should add the article before that name!), has announced a game development competition that seeks the best game for the Commodore 64 and VIC-20. The first place will be awarded a brand new THEC64 with an additional boxed THEC64 Microswitch Joystick. The runner up will get…
He is a veteran graphic designer, coder and composer, mostly recognized for for the cool soundtrack of Game Boy Color games such as “Happy Hippo” for the Kinder Surprise brand! In this interview he talks about how he started with is love for game music, learned how to code, do graphics and finally was able to turn his love for music…
Survival Messenger – The Adventure, is a new illustrated text adventure game for the Commodore 64. The premise is that you find yourself lost in an island and you have to find your way out without dying – I assume that last part is goes without saying! The classic gameplay is enriched by a nice modern touch. You have at…
Our frenemy website, Indie Retro News, has a short post today telling us that Retro Games, the maker of TheC64, has a not-so-encrypted tease on their Facebook page showing a computer silhouette as a new release for 2021. It doesn’t take two seconds to realize the mysterious computer is an Amiga 500! So yes, it looks like 2021 will bring a “THE”…
Chris Stanley from the Megastyle Productions has announced that he is teaming up with fellow group member, Rune Spaans, to port across the Atari 2600 version of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back to the Commodore 64. Initially announced in the latest published edition of the C64 themed fanzine, Freeze 64, Stanley announced the game project to the rest of…
The Plus/4 was long gone from Commodore’s catalogue when Lemmings was released in 1991 for the Amiga and because they were from different timelines, the C= machine never got an official port of the game. Many of us see today brave developers porting games for platforms that the game was never meant to be in, like Super Mario Bros. for…
OpenFlops is a hardware-based floppy emulator, similar to the Gotek drives. Besides many improvements over the original, OpenFlops is available under a free licence and therefore can be built by everybody. Suitable for most retro computers that use either internal or external floppy disk drives as a direct replacement or additional drive so you can load games/software from a USB flash…
We’ve been posting many articles and tutorials about Punyinform, a C64 library that let you create Text Adventure games for the C64 using Infocom’s Z-Machine. In order to play those games on a computer, you need an interpreter and that is where Ozmoo comes about, a Z-machine interpreter for the Commodore 64 written by Johan Berntsson and Fredrik Ramsberg in…
Louie Dimovski has published a great video on YouTube talking about the some of the most recent small commercial and freeware games for the Commodore 64. It is a great opportunity to hear about many of the new games for the C64 while taking a sneak peek on their gameplay. Louie has also added all the mentioned games links so…
The Shadows Of Sergoth is a new Amiga dungeon crawler in a first-person view. It is based on the 2018 Amstrad CPC 6128 game by Christophe Petit & Kukulcan. Double Sided Games has released a playable demo for us to try! The game is been developed for the last 18 months by Colin Vella (code), Ten Chu (graphics), and Mike Richmond (music and…
